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Fitness is a lifetime commitment, but you can accelerate results and transform your body in 12 weeks, says Bob Greene, best known as Oprah Winfrey's personal trainer. Not for the "move a little" crowd, this program is intense and challenging, whatever your starting level. "It's a bit like boot camp," Greene acknowledges. You'll do vigorous aerobic exercise 15 (beginning level), 30 (intermediates), or 45 (advanced) minutes 6 days a week, and increase 2 minutes each week--and Read more

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No overnight results

12 Punishing weeks of kick-butt work!
This book is very similar to another book the author wrote about fitness and dieting. The format is the basically the same with the first 60 pages covering emotional eating and the psychological aspects of dealing with food. The last 30 pages is a survey of current diets such as Atkins, Weight Watchers and others. The middle of the book includes a lot on specific weight-lifting exercises and aerobics. A concept I really like is the 5 Simple Eating Rules, which can be harder than you think. I also appreciated the very descriptive tables outlining the whole 12 week program of exercises. I gave 4 stars because I could have done without the emotional eating and diet survey sections. All that said, it's well written and motivating.

Great motivation for anyone wanting to get into shape.
Everything you'll need to get started and keep going on your journey to a thinner, more healthy you.A great resourse. Easy to read. ... Read more

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After trying every diet program imaginable--from Atkins to Optifast--media giant and self-confessed junk-food junkie Oprah Winfrey met personal trainer and exercise physiologist Bob Greene. The rest is talk-show history. (Who can forget seeing Oprah wheeling that wagon of fat onstage?) Instead of fad diets, fasts, and quick fixes, Greene taught Oprah how to eat right and exercise regularly. He helped her lose more than 70 pounds and changed her life forever.Read more

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Great workout book and tape set
I bought this on sale about 5 years ago, I also own the tapes. They are excellent, both the workout book and/or the tapes.They help motivate you. I love them!

Bob Greene - Make the Connection
Absolutely loved this book and finished reading in record time.It was inspiring and insightful.I am following the recommendations and am starting to see results after several years of stalled success.I would recommend this book to anyone looking to make some positive, permanent healthy changes in their life.

Make the Connection
In this book, I learned about eating breakfast to get my metabolism going, how much water to drink and how much exercise was appropriate for me to lose weight. I went on to lose 100 lbs. permanently and have written an e-Book called Live Lightly! For more information on what I did to change my thoughts around diet, body image and and the blocks I had to losing weight visit me on the web site set your heart free. ... Read more

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Lose weight, get in shape, understand your emotions, and feel good about yourself. These are the interrelated goals of Read more

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The Only Book That Explained My Situation
After a month of working out HARD and eating right, I had lost a total of two pounds and was beyond despondent.In desperation I re-read all those diet/exercise books I had purchased over the years, including this one.Greene explained that my situation was not only not that unusual, it was actually a good thing!He also explained that for some people (me) there is cycle of gaining a few pounds back before each cycle of losing.That knowledge alone has kept me from running to the ice cream when the scale goes up after I've done everything right.
Basic Diet Stuff
If you have never read a diet book before than this one is as good as any.The author addresses all aspects of dieting and exercise.My disappointment was that you have heard it all before.I have had success on Weight Watchers, Body For Life and the South Beach Diet.My problem is that after the initial excitement wears off, I don't maintain the program.I was interested in this book because the other reviews indicated that it addressed emotional aspects of over-eating.Specifically, boredom, stress, etc.But I was really disappointed when he discussed these issues because he wrote a little blurb on each aspect and then gave some personal story.To me it was childish psychological advice.
Unscientific and improvised analysis
Like many fitness gurus who resort to training as an escape from learning science, math, and the other related disciplines, yet believe that they could master the complexity of these integrated fields, without even touching a text book, Bob Greene embodies such na�ve and simplistic approach.In this book, he improvises many flawed information, believing that the folks training for fitness are the last people to discover his lazy and flawed interpretation of the physiology of fitness.
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Editorial Review

"Eat sensibly and exercise," is Bob Greene's message, and in a friendly and personal style, he shows you how. Greene, an exercise physiologist and Oprah Winfrey's trainer, focuses on diet with a wealth of sound information and helpful strategies. Greene starts with a cutting overview of destructive diets, including those popular today. Then, after reviewing exercise essentials, he presents a refreshingly sensible plan for nutritious, healthy eating, with tools for keeping intake moderate. One key is eating breakfast, which boosts metabolism and helps you eat less all day. Another is distributing your calories over the course of the day rather than eating a lot at any one meal. Read more

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Gourmet Healthful Dining with No-nonsense Ingredients!
If what is motivating to you are easily prepared meals that are proportioned properly, seasoned perfectly and use basic ingredients, then this is the book for you. There are more than 80 recipes in this book and I have served them with rave reviews!
Get with the program
Get with the program, indeed! I've studied many, many health guides--and I do judge them accorrdingly. Bob's book provides a lot of good and useful information. Bob Greene gives good advice not only on what to eat, but also how and when to eat. He also suggests balance, moderation, and variety--as well as drinking a lot of water, not eating before going to bed, or while watching TV (a typical couch potato habit).

Good Health if you eat Great Food
Ilike this book, beacuse there are really good recipes. I like too cook and i like too cook healthy.I am also over weight and I hope, that this food hepl me lost weight. ... Read more

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This is your choice
This book is really a useful book.It contains all the information about the fast food and family resturant.He mentions about the nutrition value in his book.There is a list of menus.It's such an useful guide for each and every family.

Very informative
This book is really good when you find yourself trying to decide what the least of all evils is while away from home. It is written as "advise." Example: "If you are at "Such & Such" restaurant, the best thing on the menu would be A, B, or C; Do Not even think about D, E, or F." While being full of great info, as I read my little voice was whispering "Common Sense." "Never order anything with Alfredo in the description." Well, we know that! But, it is also definitely an eye opener in some respects.
GOOD ADVICE IF YOU EAT FAST FOOD
I guess one could argue with a fair amount of validity that eating healthy and fast food our a rather distinct contrast in terms.The best advice if one wants to eat healthy at a fast food place is...don't!But let's face it...most of us simply are not going to heed that advice because our lives are so on the go that fast food is often not only the best option but the only option, particularly for lunch.
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A journal of daily renewal
This is by far the best work-out journal I have ever used.I love the ease of just checking off how many fruits and veggies you have had for the day or glasses of water you have consumed. You do not have to wtrite everything out. It really is layed out well.At the end of the week it gives you a spot to reflect back on the week.Plenty of room for to write out all your thoughts.

Make The Connection Companion Journal
I have been using this journal for 9 years and it is awesome! It contains ample room for your daily entries, water and food intake.
Great way to keep making the connection
When I first bought the journal in 1996, when the program first came out, I put it on a shelf and let it collect dust for six months than I started Oprah's program. What made me stay on the excerise/eating right program wasthis journal I had to put everything I ate, felt, did down on paper. Sometimes that is the hardest part. The important thing I found out is that when you put your feelings down on paper, you can detect a pattern to why you are not succeding in losing weight. Because of Oprah's journal, I was able to see what I was doing wrong and correct it. I now years later review my first journal to keep giving me inspiration to continue on the right track. This journal simplify's the process outlined in Oprah's book by making it easy to check off how much water you drank and check off the fruits you ate, it enables you to see how much more you have to consume for the day to stay on the plan, there is also lots of room to discuss how much excerise you did, and how you felt about it. This journal helped me stay on Oprah's plan to lose weight, it is well worth the purchase. ... Read more

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adequate, but not inspirational
The journal is adequate, though not great. It is simple to use, but leaves out some food groups likeprotien and dairy. It also assumes that everyone drinks alcoholic beverages.

Great Journal w/ or w/ out the Program
I bought this when I was reading Get With the Program but it is actually a great journal.
Buy the author's photo and an empty notebook for $14.95
If you live in a rural community, away from major bookstores, and happen to mail order these deceitful publications, you will be disappointed as hell. Many of these paranoid fitness gurus prey on unwary consumers who seek help to better their life. In this empty notebook, Bob Greene does not shy from sticking his photo on the front cover in order to impress you with his beautiful green eyes, for the price of $14.95.
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Bob Greene is best known as Oprah Winfrey's personal trainer and coauthor of their bestselling Read more

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You CAN make the connection!
Thats what this book should have been titled!I disagree.It's not just the same as make the connection.I found Make the connection just plain ole' diet info.Great info, but nothing new.This book's section on motivation was astounding!What an eye opener for someone who has struggled with the mental part of making the decision to finally change my life.This book is definately something to pick up for anyone who has had it with diets.There's so much more to it!Life changing!

a perfect completion to "Make the connection"
It is true that the steps towards weight loss are no different than in "Make the connection". But I think this book complements the first one perfectly. For the chapters on motivation alone, this book is worth buying. It explains the motivation issues of certain typres of people and why it can be damaging to your self-esteem to attempt dieting when you are not ready in your mind. This book also helped me to stay motivated whenever I had a low, and to keep going. I haven't regretted for one second that I bought this book.

I disagree with the bad reviews....
Like the others, I read MTC several times.Yes, if you just want instruction on the 10 steps, you don't need this book.However, if you've tried tofollow them but just can seem to stick to the program, this bookis for you.Read more

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